Quotes About Wisdom

..to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Nature does not reveal all her secrets at once. We imagine we are initiated in her mysteries: we are, as yet, but hanging around her outer courts.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.

Those who have obtained the farthest insight into Nature have been, in all ages, firm believers in God.

Nature has given us two ears but only one mouth.

Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.

Nature does not suffer her veil to be taken from her, and what she does not choose to reveal to the spirit, thou wilt not wrest from her by levers and screws.

I follow nature as the surest guide, and resign myself with implicit obedience to her sacred ordinances.

It was formerly a terrifying view to me that I should one day be an old woman. I now find that Nature has provided pleasures for every state.

Listening to nature's operating instructions.

Always begin anew with the day, just as nature does. It is one of the sensible things that nature does.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

Unless you see your nature, all this talk about cause & effect is nonsense. Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

It is smarter to borrow from nature than to reinvent the wheels.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

Many difficulties which nature throws in our way, may be smoothed away by the exercise of intelligence.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

The nature of our intelligence is such that it is stimulated far less by the will to know than by the will to understand.

Pure knowledge is not imparted by another; it comes unmasked. It is the one that is listening: it is your own true nature.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

Man must go back to nature for information.